OxyContin: From Pain Relief to Addiction
by Lockwood, Brad
Series:Drug Abuse and Society
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AR Book Level
9.3
AR Points
2
Word Count
8,890
Interest Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Genre
Nonfiction
AR Quiz #
110507 EN
About this book
This book explores the problem of teenagers' and pain sufferers' easy accessibility to prescription painkillers that often leads to addiction, examining OxyContin's transition from a pain reliever for cancer patients to the cause of overdose by abusers.